This birthyear guitar malarcky...

Bogwhoppit

...tis a bit of a bugger if you were born in 1959

mart

It's worse if you were born in '49 or '39!

jd0272

Nowt flash I'm hankering for from '72 asit goes.

ThePrettyDamned

1990 anyone?

Nope? No great legendary guitars from then?

*shuffles back into man cave to learn alter bridge songs*

xHymnal

ThePrettyDamned said:

1990 anyone?

Nope? No great legendary guitars from then?

*shuffles back into man cave to learn alter bridge songs*

Probably a pre factory PRS?!

IvisonGuitars

1981...hardly a vintage year in guitar making was it?!

spark240

Watching a. 65 melody maker at the moment ...

Skipped

Es-125 is cheap enough for 1959.
If your budget is bigger: Les Paul Junior.

As I have said before - I think a Year of Birth guitar can end up meaning more to you than your first guitar.  I also think there is a difference between wanting to do this while your own Mother is still alive, and feeling an urge to get a Year of Birth guitar after your own Mother is no longer around.

  :-O

But possibly not as :-O as when said guitar almost drops into your lap.......

 

mike_l

1975.....

Nope, can't think of anything I'd want.......

Les Paul? Don't get on with them

SG? See Les Paul

Tele? Don't like them

Strat? Don't like big headstocks, bent-steel saddles and six-screw trems

Bidley

1986 is a tough one for me, especially as I'm a big superstrat fan.

usedtobe

1962... 

mike_l

Bidley said:

1986 is a tough one for me, especially as I'm a big superstrat fan.

Get one of each then....Do I have to think of everything?

Bucket

ThePrettyDamned said:

1990 anyone?

Nope? No great legendary guitars from then?

*shuffles back into man cave to learn alter bridge songs*

Ibanez RG550. Sorted.

They'd been discontinued by 1995 though. Bugger.

richardhomer

Yep. Got one. '64 Cherry ES335....

Bidley

Bucket said:

ThePrettyDamned said:

1990 anyone?

Nope? No great legendary guitars from then?

*shuffles back into man cave to learn alter bridge songs*

Ibanez RG550. Sorted.

They'd been discontinued by 1995 though. Bugger.

They hadn't been made in 1986 we're both out by a year on both sides!

octatonic

I helped a friend get her fiancé a 1974 Telecaster Custom that she gave to him as a wedding preset.

It was really sweet and he was so chuffed.

I'm 1972- nothing from that year that really appeals to me.

Bogwhoppit

mart said:

It's worse if you were born in '49 or '39!

That would make you my dad

jaygtr

1969 for me, but it's not on my to do list really. [-(

monquixote

I'm 1980 and I've got a 1980 "The Strat" so I'm quite chuffed with that. 

ESchap

1960, almost as bad as 1959

Scratched the itch with a 1960 ES-330 a few years ago.  Fantastic guitar.  However, still lust after a 1960 ES, Cherry with PAFs ... maybe one day ...

axisus

1963. Don't want some crappy relic from that crappy year. They are so unrealistic when they are worn down over time, don't look like they've even had a sniff of a belt sander.